So, this is what I wanted to have in chapter one (see the last annotation.) Reading it again, I can see—yet again—why that was a bad instinct. It’s much better here, in chapter two. I still feel that it’s a tad long. I cut it down significantly (if you can believe that.) I worry that pacing wise, we spend too long in a fight for this early in the book. However, some of the things I get across in this battle are invaluable for the rest of the story. I introduce the Watcher, and I get rid of Vin’s atium—thereby compounding the large danger of the kingdom being at war with the more personal danger of Vin being stalked while she’s exposed without any atium.
We’ll get to a third level of danger—that of something threatening the entire world—later on.
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